Gisele on Brady: ‘very focused’

Published: January 15, 2014;Last modified: January 31, 2014 02:25PM

NEW YORK — It may be NFL playoff time in the Tom Brady-Gisele Bundchen household, but the stress doesn’t carry over at home.

“He’s very focused,” the 33-year-old Bundchen said of Brady, quarterback for the New England Patriots, who will play the Denver Broncos in the AFC championship game Sunday. “We are both very supportive of one another in what we do. . . . Of course nobody likes to lose. Those aren’t the best days.”

To stay calm, the Brazilian model says the couple winds down differently.

“At night if my husband is watching TV and watching football, I have my little book and I put something in my ears so I don’t hear it and I put my light (on) and have my book and I’m like, ‘Ohhh.’ He’s feeding his soul and that’s important to him to watch football. I only want to watch if I’m watching him,” she joked. •••

McCartney, Starr add to Beatles-fest

NEW YORK — The Grammys weekend is shaping up to be a Beatles weekend.

The Recording Academy announced Tuesday that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will perform at the Jan. 26 awards show in Los Angeles. The Beatles will be honored at the academy’s Special Merits Awards the day before, and a day after the big show, the iconic group will be the center of a performance special featuring the Eurythmics and other acts playing Beatles hits.

UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. — Music legend Chuck Berry says he has no plans to retire.

The 87-year-old rock ’n’ roll legend will make his 200th performance today at a Missouri nightclub where he’s been performing for nearly two decades. He says he hopes to make it another 200 shows.

The St. Louis native has been performing at the Blueberry Hill night club in University City since 1996.

Berry said in October 2012 that his singing days had passed. But he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that performing is in his genes, that he’s thankful for each day, has no plans to retire and will keep going “for as long as the big man upstairs allows.”

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Globe fires up

LONDON — Shakespeare’s Globe in London is adding two innovations in its quest to give audiences a sense of theater as it was 400 years ago: a roof and candles. Hundreds and hundreds of candles.

They flicker in sconces and chandeliers inside the Globe’s brand-new indoor venue, which stands alongside its Elizabethan-style open-air playhouse beside the River Thames.

The oak-framed theater will allow the Globe to stage plays year-round for the first time. The playhouse was built from original 17th-century plans using centuries-old techniques, and its shows will be lit entirely by candles.